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The main reason diffusal is good on CK for the same reason it's good on Naga and PL (and part of the same reason that Manta is good on AntiMage): illusions stack manaburn.

The stats are actually pretty good for him for him. His crit steroid benefits from the additional agility (== attack speed) quite a bit, and his mana pool is small enough to love the bonus intelligence. The ability to purge debuffs whilst bkb/manta are on cooldown, purge enemy buffs and slow the heroes that can outrun him (LUNAAAAAAAAAAA) are all big bonuses. Also: mana burn ruins the likes of earthshaker, sven and dazzle.

It's a bit of a situational pickup compared to armlet, but much better for him than many other heroes.

Do people keep forgetting that the mana burn done by diffusal is also done as physical damage?

Additionally, I dislike satanic on ck even with cuirass as he doesn't generate enough attack speed for me to make full use of the item and his illusions dont benefit fully from it either. Heart is simply superior in every department for him and his illusions. I loathe getting items on heroes that don't synergise with their abilities. He is the only hero in the game that can generate illusions with 100% damage so you want to maximise their damage and tanking - therefore, heart.

In an ideal game my item build would be treads, magic wand, drums, armlet/diffusal, bkb. Damage/tank/manta (for ultra cheese pushing factor) after that as per game requirements. Diffusal is situational yes but just do not underestimate the item on him.

Magnus is insane and unless you're up against a puck or someone that can easily dodge/deny damage from your shockwave, it's very hard to lose the midlane.
Get to level 3, get bottle, spam Q, harvest tears from the enemy midlaner.

Treant 1 lane with a semi carry that can farm a bit... Solo lane (safe if possible but it doesnt really matter) Dragon Knight.

Good luck doing ANYthing to a Dragon knight with lvl 4 dragons blood and lvl 4 living armour on. Grabbed a helm of the dominator early on and at that point you are really hard to lane against as you just walk towards them and punch them to death.

Am interested to see how it fares against different lanes but solo Dragon Knight vs Spirit Breaker didn't go all that well for Spirit Breaker.

The game before that we got the combo pulled vs us and our 2 players couldnt do anything to him (although our lanes were very weak that game).